Anthologies

Short Stories

"Gods of the Sea" (Combat Monsters 2025) "Rock and Roll Ain't Noise Pollution" (Back in Black 2024) "Ninja Echo Charlie Mike" (Joe Ledger: Unbreakable 2023) "The Agency of Modern Kunoichi" (Unquiet Spirits 2023) "Missing on Kaua‘i" (Crime Hits Home 2022) "Empty Nest" (Surviving Tomorrow 2020) "Amelia Delia Lee" (Weird Tales Magazine #363 2019) "Life After Breath" (Running Wild Short Stories Volume Two 2018) "Resistant" (Never Fear: The Apocalypse 2017) "Ace of Wands (Never Fear: The Tarot 2016)

Topics

Craft, Subject Expertise, The Business of Writing

Public Speaking Details

Infusing Action with Emotion Write Fights and Action Readers Can Feel 15 Tips for Writing a Cinematic Novel 4-Act Structure for Outlining a Novel Writing Believable Dialogue Performing Secrets for Reading Your Own Work Developing Genuine and Multifaceted Characters

Biography

Tori Eldridge is the bestselling author of HAWAI‘I RAGE and KAUA‘I STORM (Ranger Makalani Pahukula Mysteries), the standalone novel DANCE AMONG THE FLAMES, and the acclaimed Lily Wong ninja thrillers—THE NINJA DAUGHTER, THE NINJA’S BLADE, THE NINJA BETRAYED, and THE NINJA’S OATH. Her work has earned nominations for Anthony, Lefty, and Macavity Awards, and won the 2021 Crimson Scribe Award for Best Book of the Year. Before writing, Tori performed in the original 1st national company of CATS and on Broadway, television, and film. She also holds a 5th degree black belt in To-Shin Do ninja martial arts. She was born and raised in Honolulu—of Hawaiian, Chinese, and Norwegian descent—and now resides in Portland, Oregon, where she helps care for her grandchildren while writing and narrating her next book.